All the above suggestions for trying to clean up your coin are applicable and should be attempted in very slow strokes. However, when I first saw...
A nice coin with a little wear. The pics are too blurry to give a definitive grade, but I'll guess XF-40
VF-30
Look at the "0" in the date ... something in the recess of the die or PMD?.
Well, a 2026 edition of the book would have been sent to print in Sept or Oct of 2025 so the prices published were accurate up to that time. Gold...
Well, "AI" means "always incorrect".
What would possess a person with 100% feedback, though less than 40 of them, to list something like that?
Well, the 2 recognized groundhogs, one American and the other, Canadian, presented 2 opposite views, so I guess Spring will arrive in the vicinity...
A agree that it's nothing, but just print one article somewhere and AI will come back with 3 different types.
I think that the dye bleached out all of the overpunches
Well, if you think that gold and silver dropped alot, platinum lost about 20%. Here look at the Kitco page: https://www.kitco.com/
Yep, there's split serifs, especially the "E"
The only one I couldn't remember was "Stranded in the jungle", although I liked "The Cadets"
It is the Sulphur content in the old "manila" envelopes that REALLY rect with coins after a while.
The rim on the reverse?
I wouldn't send it in until you fully digest all the verbiage that you are going to get here. I have no clue except for possibly foreign.
What's REALLY frightening is, in the initial Ebay post, and after the item for sale are all the "similar" 1 oz ingots at 1/3 the scrap value for...
Add my congrats as well!
As above, it looks like a glue or adhesive of some sort, and liquid when applied with a fast drying time.
Silver mining is going great guns, trying to feed the stomach that the public seems to have.
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